Federal authorities raided a series of stash houses in West Texas and southern New Mexico last month in an attempt to break up a human smuggling ring, with a side of drugs and money, according to a news release from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. ICE and border patrol officers arrested 18 suspected human smugglers and 117 individuals they say were smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Brazil, El Salvador and Peru, the release states.
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Virgil Lee Bailey, 36, spent time in both Terry County and Scurry County jails in West Texas before he accepted a plea deal Thursday on two charges of producing child pornography. Virgil Lee Bailey, 36, spent time in both Terry County and Scurry County jails in West Texas before he accepted a plea deal Thursday on two charges of producing child pornography.
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The El Paso, Texas, resident told KTBC the bees have made her attic and the inside of her walls their home for about three years, but now there are more of them than ever , and they're more aggressive than ever. A local beekeeper estimated that she and her husband now share their home with about a million "Africanized and European" hybrid bees that are 20 to 30 times more aggressive than run-of-the-mill honeybees, according to KFOX.
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Vulnerable Republican Rep. Will Hurd's biggest challenge this year isn't his Democratic opposition, his tough battleground district, or even separating himself from an unpopular president. It's his own party's agenda in Washington.
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Authorities say a boy opened fire with a gun at a rural Kentucky high school Tuesday, fatally shooting two students and wounding several others. Here's a look at some recent U.S. school shootings, and some of the deadliest of years past: - Dec. 7, 2017: Two students at Aztec High School in New Mexico were killed by a gunman disguised as a student.
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent and two other people have died after a sport utility vehicle collided with a wild hog in Southwest Texas, authorities said. The accident happened late Monday on a rural road near Uvalde, about 110 miles southwest of San Antonio.
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A Border Patrol agent injured in an incident that left a fellow agent dead was discharged Wednesday from an El Paso hospital. The agent was discharged Wednesday from the University Medical Center in El Paso, said Doug Mosier, spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in El Paso.
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Authorities haven't offered an official explanation of what happened when a U.S. border agent died and another was badly injured while working over the weekend in West Texas, and a border patrol supervisor says reports they were attacked are "speculation." Several elected officials, including President Donald Trump, have called the death of Rogelio Martinez, 36, an attack.
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A U.S. border patrol official says unconfirmed reports that an agent who died and another who was injured were attacked are "speculation" as of Monday evening. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official Rush Carter says all the agency can confirm is that the two agents were injured and that a joint investigation with the FBI will hopefully determine how that happened.
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